Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki says the mistakes made by U.S. diplomat Paul Bremer have caused no less danger for Iraq than terrorism.

At a gathering of local officials of the Iraqi province of Karbala, al-Maliki added that the Iraqi government continues to suffer from the mistakes made by Bremer, who was appointed by U.S. President George W. Bush as the director of reconstruction and humanitarian assistance for post-invasion Iraq in 2003.
""The Iraqi administration and all government offices are suffering the consequences of Paul Bremer's mistakes,"" he said.
Following the 2003 war on Iraq, Bremer served as the head of the Coalition Provisional Authority and exercised power over the civil administration.
He is widely criticized over the insurgency in Iraq that has partly resulted from his reportedly unilateral decision to formally dissolve the Iraqi army in May 2003.
The comments by al-Maliki came after Time magazine reported that Bremer had embezzled $9 billion of the oil-rich country's reconstruction budget.
(Source: Press TV)